What are you planning and organizing? I just make a folder “series” and one “movies”, dump all the respective content in those, start the scan and start watching. 🤷♂️
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TK420@lemmy.world 10 months agoI was not talking about just installing the server itself, the whole planning, installing, organizing etc. being more than 15 mins
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
TK420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I bought dedicated hardware and shucked a lot of drives to get all the storage I needed. I modded and old case to put this in, added a couple of blu ray drives for ripping my media. Also I needed to update music brainz because it had incorrect or non existent data.
I had an initial server that was quick and dirty and was great, but I needed it to handle all of my media and it does pretty well. Always can use more storage because I’m constantly buying media on discs.
victorz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah okay, I see. I have two drives adding up to 14 TB that I store everything on, in my main PC. (Looking to change this with a NAS or something.)
And eh… We have different ways of acquiring media, we could say. 🙂 Ave probably different storage needs due to that as well.
But yeah, it makes sense that it is more than 15 minutes if you include all that. But installing and setting up the storages in Plex and stuff, not a huge task, which is nice.
TK420@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m always getting media in a number of ways. Source rips and downloads are the best vs what’s available to the general public. I’m ok with what I’ve got going on.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
If you want a decent setup, I’d suggest Radarr (movies) and Sonarr (TV) and a torrent client to get started. Three packages, and they can all run in a docker-compose file.
TK420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have a decent setup and I don’t use any of that. No need for that when I’m using discs as my sources vs downloads.
ramjambamalam@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That’s not a decent setup; that’s an awesome setup! Just not as beginner-friendly IMO.
TK420@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Thanks. Remember, Plex is for YOUR media, so you know, I feel ripping is part of the basics of getting things setup and going.
As a note to other readers: I still rip everything manually because something at some point breaks an automated process and it has to be done manually anyway….so I just do it all manually these days. Takes less time, and when I have done my library over again (a few times) I still did it all manually.